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sextet
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sextet has 5 senses
- sextet(n = noun.communication) sestet, sextette - a musical composition written for six performers; Array is a kind of composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music
- sextet(n = noun.quantity) 6, captain hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, vi - the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one; Array is a kind of digit, figure
- sextet(n = noun.group) sestet, sextette - six performers or singers who perform together; Array is a kind of musical group, musical organisation, musical organization
- sextet(n = noun.group) sestet, sextette - a set of six similar things considered as a unit; Array is a kind of set
- sextet(n = noun.group) sextette, sixsome - six people considered as a unit; Array is a kind of assemblage, gathering
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sextet, n. (also sextette)
1 Mus. a composition for six voices or instruments.
2 the performers of such a piece.
3 any group of six.
1 Mus. a composition for six voices or instruments.
2 the performers of such a piece.
3 any group of six.
Etymology
alt. of SESTET after L sex six
THESAURUS
sextet
German band, Hexateuch, Jewish star, Magen David, Philharmonic, Spenserian stanza, antistrophe, band, big band, bipartisanship, book, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, burden, callithumpian band, canto, chamber orchestra, chorus, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, combo, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert, concert band, concord, concordance, concurrence, cooperation, cooperativeness, couplet, desks, distich, dixieland band, duet, duettino, duo, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, ensemble, ensemble music, ensemble singing, envoi, epode, esprit, esprit de corps, estoile, fellow feeling, fellowship, gamelan orchestra, group, half a dozen, harmony, heptastich, hexachord, hexad, hexagon, hexagram, hexahedron, hexameter, hexapod, hexapody, hexarchy, hexastich, hexastyle, jazz band, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, jug band, line, mass action, measure, military band, monostich, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octastich, octave, octet, orchestra, ottava rima, part music, part singing, part song, pentastich, polyphonic music, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quatrain, quintet, ragtime band, reciprocity, refrain, rhyme royal, rock-and-roll group, septet, septuor, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, six-pointed star, sixer, skiffle band, solidarity, stanza, star of David, stave, steel band, strain, street band, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, strings, strophe, swing band, syllable, symbiosis, symphony, symphony orchestra, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, tercet, terza rima, terzet, terzetto, tetrastich, trio, triplet, tristich, triumvirate, troika, united action, verse, waits, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds
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